Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is settling in at an Army hospital in Texas for the final phase of his “reintegration” following five years of captivity in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Army officials said Friday.

Bergdahl arrived in San Antonio early Friday morning after spending nearly two weeks at a medical center in Germany. There’s no telling how much longer he could need to readjust, officials said. Bergdahl and his doctors will continue to go at their own pace.

“Every reintegration process is unique,” said Army Maj. Gen. Joseph DiSalvo, the head of U.S. Army South. DiSalvo greeted Bergdahl when he stepped off the airplane and they had a brief exchange before Bergdahl climbed into a van bound for Brooke Army Medical Center.

“I basically saw him for about 60 seconds,” DiSalvo said. “He was in uniform. He looked like a U.S. Army soldier. He had good deportment. We exchanged salutes, … he appeared just like any soldier would when he saw a two-star general. He was a little nervous, but he looked good and saluted.”

The two exchanged about “30 words,” DiSalvo said, all in English. According to early news reports, Bergdahl was said to be having trouble understanding English.

DiSalvo and two Army officials who briefed reporters in San Antonio said Bergdahl is staying in a normal hospital room, though one without a television. The Army’s “decompression” team is keeping Bergdahl isolated from mass media and the controversy that has surrounded his release — though he will eventually see such reports when he’s further along, officials said.

The focus now, they added, is to help Bergdahl regain the emotional and psychological equipment he needs to return to civilization after his years in captivity and isolation. One big priority is to enable him to make choices.

“Everybody here decided what to put on today and what to have for breakfast,” said Col. Bradley Poppen, an Army psychologist. For someone in captivity like Bergdahl, “those decision processes were taken away from him. One of the goals is to have a sense of predictability for him, and for him to feel control over his environment.”

Another objective, Poppen said, is for Bergdahl to realize the coping skills he may have used during his time in captivity no longer make sense in dealing with the Army, his family and normal life. A classic example is the combat veteran who hears a loud bang and automatically dives for the ground. Each returnee must work on un-learning those kinds of behaviors, and planning in advance for how they’ll respond when they encounter stressful reminders.

The Army officials declined to provide details about Bergdahl’s physical condition, citing health care privacy regulations, or to discuss what the debriefing team has learned about the conditions under which he was held. News outlets have reported that Bergdahl tried to escape and may have been confined for some time in a box or a cage, but Defense Department officials will not confirm such details.

The Army also declined to say whether Bergdahl’s parents might travel to San Antonio. An Army spokesman read a statement from the family asking for privacy as they focus on their son’s return. Bergdahl apparently has not yet spoken with his family, even by phone; Poppen said it’s “the returnee’s choice about where and when they want to re-engage, socially.”